[FADCA] Lost another one to Dia Tec!

[Russell Oder]

Mike, if you can set up a 2, 220 and 440 antenna, there is no reason that 
the 440 and 220 could not be used for packet and leave the 2 meter portion 
for the voice repeater.

I have 3 voice repeaters on 1 triband antenna and the work great.

That way the 2 meter repeater can use the location and packet can still be 
supported for Winlink and other uses.

We can work with you to get 9600 bps data and mitrek radio for UHF.  As you 
know amateur equipment for 220 is very limited but there is another 
possiblity.

Chuck, what is the status of the Tait 220 data radios?

Russ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Harper" <MikeHarper at mrhs.org>
To: "bud thompson" <budt at cfl.rr.com>; <k4gbb at earthlink.net>; "Florida 
Amateur Digital Communication Association" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "CatherineK4ECM" <manywtrs at atlantic.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 1:42 AM
Subject: RE: [FADCA] Lost another one to Dia Tec!


Bud,

I'm sorry about losing the packet site in Ocala.  After two hurricaines that 
came through Ocala last year, the hospital site location had previously 
expressed a desire to replace this setup with a HAM 2m voice repeater.  This 
will be of much more practical use for the hospital in disaster scenarios as 
communications was a major problem during the last hurricaines.  Also, I 
think more hams in the area will benefit from having the repeater available 
during non-disaster normal usage than what was happening before.  I will be 
coordinating this changeover and am hoping to get everything operational 
before hurricaine season starts.  The site and the antenna will be used for 
the new repeater.

I'm not an electronics guru, and am not sure what is wrong with the current 
packet equipment but it appears to be totally dead.  We had an electrical 
storm here last week and the whole hospital lost power, so I suspect a power 
surge of some kind did the damage.  I am willing to donate the three Tiny-2 
TNC's in the stack and the radios if someone wants to repair them, but 
another site will need to be found.

Sorry, and I hope you understand.  The needs of our patients and community 
needs to come first.

73's
Mike
KQ4PP

-----Original Message-----
From: bud thompson [mailto:budt at cfl.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:08 PM
To: k4gbb at earthlink.net; Florida Amateur Digital Communication
Association
Cc: CatherineK4ECM; Mike Harper; Edwin A. Crowell
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Lost another one to Dia Tec!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles S Schuman" <k4gbb at earthlink.net>
To: "FADCA - News Reflecter" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:17
Subject: [FADCA] Lost another one to Dia Tec!


> It looks like the ROSE stack @ MRMC in Ocala is
> SK! Mike, kq4pp, says the equip took a direct hit and wiped out the whole
> mess! He also reported that the hosp has other plans for that area and
> wasn't open to having replacment gear installed.
>
> I haven't seen anything out of The Villages for over a month.
>
> Other than my linux test facilities, Telpac node and BBS there is no other
> packet service in Citrus/Marion Counties.
>
> While I think of it... It appears that the linux mkiss don't like BPQkiss.
> I am able to use the Tiny2 kiss w/o any pbms - other than the TNC has to
> be restarted after each boot. If I hang a TNC w/ BPQkiss on the same cable
> it talks to the puter, but has no TXD. I'm guessing that Chuck, kp4djt,
> had simular pbms and as a result went to 6pac.
>
> <<Charlie>>
>     k4gbb
>
>

* * *
>From bud N0IA

Losing the site in Ocala is not the direction in which we want to go!  Dan
KA0OXH is nearly ready to put Clermont /Lake County LAN on the air and the
next step is to backbone north to Ocala!  N3PPC and I are working on radios
for Russ N4KOX that will go in sites North, NW and NE of Ocala and will be
expecting Ocala to be on the air! Arrrgh!

Mike- What can be done to mitigate this? This would be a major loss to our
efforts to refurbish the network! (Can you attend the upcoming FADCA
Technical Conference in Sanford on April 30?)  We have some 'hospital'
connections in Seminole, Orange, and Lake Counties... is it possible those
might help?

> I haven't seen anything out of The Villages for over a month.

Ed W5TWR has been the main mover/shaker there and I know he has been in/out
of town having new grandbabies and other family obligations.

Ed- can you step in here and comment?

We gave our E-mail Over Ham Radio in Support of EMCOMMs dog and pony show in
Tavares shortly after the hurricanes, in the Villages in January (?) and in
Eustis at the Lake County EOC in March. I had the impression the LAKE COUNTY
and SUMTER COUNTY ARES groups will be working on getting folks on packet
(Paclink AGW and/or Airmail) and putting up Telpac nodes.  I'm hoping that
some of the more interested folks from the LAKE COUNTY ARES will attend the
FADCA Technical Conference.  (It is less than 70 minutes drive.) Tom KD4WOV
indicated that would be likely once I published the full agenda.

> Other than my linux test facilities, Telpac node and BBS there is no other
> packet service in Citrus/Marion Counties.

Hang in there, Charlie!  Catherine K4EMC in VERY REMOTE Inglis which is in
Levy County only 0.2 mile out of Citrus County is anxious to get connected
to the network.  Late last year N3PPC and I set her up with Airmail and
Paclink AGW, but she is so far from any network node that it doesn't do her
any good on vhf packet. She doesn't have sufficient HF experience / training
to use the Airmail on HF effectively.  She has 'connections' there with her
ARES EC that might help generate some interest.  It might prove fruitful for
you and Catherine to get together and see if you can bring her in to your
packet service and get involved.

Catherine - any chance you can attend the FADCA Technical Conference in
Sanford (12 miles north of Orlando) on April 30?  Perhaps you and Charlie
K4GBB could carpool. (k4gbb at earthlink.net <k4gbb at earthlink.net>)

> While I think of it... It appears that the Linux mkiss don't like BPQkiss.
> I am able to use the Tiny2 kiss w/o any pbms - other than the TNC has to
> be restarted after each boot.

N3PPC and I are not that far along with LINUX FPAC for me to respond (N3PPC-
can you?)  However, I recall that Chuck KP4DJT was concerned about TNCs in
their (native) kissmode not being able to stay there!  I have determined
that the AEA/Timewave PK96 will stay there for a fact in DOS FPAC.  We use
KISS 0$B mode for DOS FPAC and it works swell, and works every time.

73,
bud N0IA
386 574 4124









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